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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-03-29 11:29 AM

That lonely figure on a deserted shore,
walking without purpose, without goal –
is me: life lost in by-gone good-times days;
when I read the daily news with satisfaction;
when money was taken for granted,
– made or lost, I’d always come up winning –
and those close to me showed their love
by spending it in the great shopping malls,
some of which, I’m told, I owned.

But a tornado called reality struck
and it’s all gone, as if it never was –
I can barely understand what happened.
My life seems so barren and without purpose.

I notice a kind of mindless peacefulness
coming from the waves drifting to their death
upon the cold, wet sands... Their sad song
leaves my soul longing to recover
the serenity and happiness I once knew
far, far from this alien shore.

Can one as wrapped up in stuff as I
really hope to find joy, or happiness?
Where should I go to find such?
I asked myself as I looked over the gray sea
and the waves continued to hiss and mutter
their voice singing a million year old song,
a “best seller” obviously, to repeat so long!
And I understood that all along
I’d been standing, blind and deaf
in the middle of paradise.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-03-29 12:16 PM

Yes, I think you have, WindWalker. Beautiful thoughts.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-03-29 12:18 PM

WindWalker,

It's about time you woke-up and noticed that.

Good show.

Bobby

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2008-03-29 01:10 PM

H.D. Thoreau would most assuredly concur!:

"Simplify...simplify...simplify(!)" and:

"In wildness is the salvation of the world(!)"

I am especially fond of the ending:

"I understood that all along
I’d been standing, blind and deaf
in the middle of paradise."

serious applause!

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2008-03-29 03:37 PM

Nice writing...James

Seoulair
Senior Member

since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

5 posted 2008-03-29 06:55 PM

profound. great poem. Love the read.

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2008-03-29 08:16 PM

Sometimes looking actually makes us see, my friend...and I believe you see quite well.

j.

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